Focus Column - By Scott J. Ferrell and David R. Sugden - Plaintiff-oriented practitioners with an affinity for class actions a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oil companies may be held legally responsible for failing to warn retailers about the dangers of the chemical ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal gave a thumbs-up Tuesday to on-air trash talk radio, ruling that talk show ho...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for George Manns, an avid traveler whose law career spanned six decades. Manns, who di...

SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor charged in Marin County with assault with a deadly weapon previously confronted a man ...

Forum Column - By Duffy Carolan - In a decision that may seriously hinder investigative journalism in California, the state Su...

SANTA ANA - Motocross promoter Michael Goodwin said more than once that he wanted to kill racing legend Mickey Thompson, accor...

LOS ANGELES - The Fair Political Practices Commission has fined the Los Angeles plaintiffs' firm Girardi & Keese for faili...

LOS ANGELES - In an opinion that would have warmed the plastic heart of Attorney Barbie, a federal appeals court supported san...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four-year-old Raphael P. III is named after a man who isn't his biological father but has cared for him just l...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new trial date was set Monday in the five-year-old fraud litigation between the Oakland Raiders and the gove...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray, who is under investigation by the state Commission on Judicial Perfo...

SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor, charged by Marin County authorities with assault with a deadly weapon, stabbed a man ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury here became the first in the country Monday to declare gasoline containing MTBE a defect...

LOS ANGELES - It began with a vague request to write "something about Belmont.'' It ended up a 300-inch piece, penned by Los A...

Focus Column - By David S. Kupetz - It is inevitable that a significant portion of companies in new or emerging industries wil...

Forum Column - By Jean-Paul Jassy and Susan Seager - A worldwide glance since the start of 2001 reveals that some governments,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Karen Frank's 7-year-old son, like many first-graders, loves to draw. But unlike most kids his age, the intell...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Daily Journal has won two awards in the Associated Press News Executives Council Newswriting...

SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued two power generators for antitrust violations Monday, marking the first ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Public Utilities Commission on Monday went where no regulatory agency has gone before - into fe...

Column by Garry Abrams - The world is so unpeaceful these days that even Winnie the Pooh's idyllic Hundred Acre Wood has becom...

WASHINGTON - After Leonard Cotton and six other Baltimore residents were convicted in 1999 of conspiracy to distribute cocaine...

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Trials in commercial cases often involve large numbers of exhibits that require counsel to...

Cicta Column - Court Jester - In Oreste Lodi, Reversioner v. Oreste Lodi, Beneficiary, Oreste Lodi, Reversioner v. Ores...

Forum Column - By Judi Birnberg - My experience as a prospective juror was an exercise in frustration and a clear illustratio...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, an often-blunt man who made his mark as a gridiron star, Rhodes Sch...

LOS ANGELES - Boosting its labor and employment law practice, New York-based Proskauer Rose has nabbed rainmaker Mark Theodore...

Partner Lance Kimmel led Santa Monica's Entravision Communications Corp. in its seven-year, $225 million high-yield debt offer...

Two corporate lawyers have parted ways with Arter & Hadden , joining San Diego native firm Higgs Fletcher & Mack . Wil...